Follow the self guided tutorials to create an active educational website. Tweet your new web address for all to view and comment. Remember to use the Web Page Rubric to score your Web page. Submit your self evaluation for credit.
Create RCampus Account
Develop a teacher website that includes a class, an assignment, a rubric, and additional links you could use to teach your class.
Create a simple Rubric that you will or could use. Notice, I use the higher score closer to the left. I want my students to show their very best, so I make it the first thing they read for each column.
For any tutorials or instructor directed guidance, please e-mail for assistance.
C. Create a Wiki: There are various free online programs to help you create a Wiki
Watch the different tutorials on how to create and edit your wiki.
Decide on a use for a wiki in your classroom. Wikis have been used to house lesson plans, curriculum guides, and even used to allow student posted material.
Create a wiki that you could use in your classroom. Within the wiki, explain the purpose for the wiki, embed a video, upload pictures, links, and documents that could be used in your instruction.
Tweet your final link for all to view and make comments.
Free Open Source Tool for recording screen work. By creating how-to videos, learners can demonstrate what they know for future presentation as well as utilize other presentations to learn new technology. The ideas for creation are endless.
Using the CamStudio or the Purchased version Camtasia,create a presentation that teaches something you know how to do. It could be how to create an email or something you would use in your classroom.
Post your video to YouTube.
Tweet the link.
E. Using Assessments to Guide Student Learning
This video link comes from 4Teachers.org. It shows how one district integrated technology into classrooms.
One of the linked tools is Persuade Star. A guided tutorial for teachers to help students learn to write persuasive pieces of work. Follow the attached tutorial to look at how Persuade Star could benefit your teaching. Tweet your comments to the twitter account.
PBL (Project Based Learning) Check List Creator - Create checklists for your students to use during peer editing or self editing to improve learners ability to improve their own work before submitting for teacher evaluation.
F. Differentiation through Technology Assistance to Address Students' Diverse Backgrounds and Abilities
Create a voice thread account. Uses for Voice Thread could include oral assessment for Foreign language classes, understanding of a scientific experiment set up, or even group discussion about how to solve a problem. By making every student in the group contribute a unique idea, all children are showing participation. Differentiation could simply be the expected outcome of the Voice Thread participation.
Create a voice thread you could use with other teachers, a class of children, or some other group.
Share your Voice Thread on the class Twitter.
G. Web Quest: These are a collection of websites connected by a common question, task, or story that links to the curriculum. They can be used to encourage many thinking skills such as:
Comparing and contrasting
Inducing and deducing
Analyzing or classifying
Problem solving and decision making
Critical and creative thinking
1. Investigate pre-made Web Quests.
Teacher Web There are many Web Quests that have been created. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the first page of each Web Quest you can see the date of publication. It is important when you use a Web Quest over multiple years that you verify the websites being linked. Often times web hosting can change and sites can become unavailable.
Web Quests 2013 These Web Quests are more current and a bit more challenging.
2. Adapting and Enhancing
3. Planning a Web Quest 4. Using the included template, create a Web Quest that could be utilized with a group of students. 5. Tweet your Web Quest to the class Twitter.
H. Using Formative and Summative Assessments for Math and Science Why use Gizmo Learning Technology?This video gives statistical data on how using technology improves learning.
Watch the video.
Watch one of the sample Gizmo tutorial videos found here.
Explore the Gizmos and see if there are any that would fit your curriculum.
Sign up for a 30 day free trial and sample 3 - 5 Gizmos to report on.
Tweet your findings to the class Twitter for all to see.
Objective: Teachers will design or adapt, develop, and provide students with contemporary tools and resources to enhance learning.
Reading - Chapter 2: A Constructivist Approach to the NETS.T
A. Free Online Technology used to design Instructional Content
RCampus Tools
B. Creating an RCampus Website
Follow the self guided tutorials to create an active educational website. Tweet your new web address for all to view and comment. Remember to use the Web Page Rubric to score your Web page. Submit your self evaluation for credit.For any tutorials or instructor directed guidance, please e-mail for assistance.
C. Create a Wiki: There are various free online programs to help you create a Wiki
Sample Wiki
pbWorks Wiki
User Manual for PBWorks Wiki
Wikispaces: Video tutorials are available to help get started.
D. CamStudio
Free Open Source Tool for recording screen work. By creating how-to videos, learners can demonstrate what they know for future presentation as well as utilize other presentations to learn new technology. The ideas for creation are endless.E. Using Assessments to Guide Student Learning
This video link comes from 4Teachers.org. It shows how one district integrated technology into classrooms.One of the linked tools is Persuade Star. A guided tutorial for teachers to help students learn to write persuasive pieces of work. Follow the attached tutorial to look at how Persuade Star could benefit your teaching. Tweet your comments to the twitter account.
PBL (Project Based Learning) Check List Creator - Create checklists for your students to use during peer editing or self editing to improve learners ability to improve their own work before submitting for teacher evaluation.
F. Differentiation through Technology Assistance to Address Students' Diverse Backgrounds and Abilities
Voice Thread:
G. Web Quest: These are a collection of websites connected by a common question, task, or story that links to the curriculum. They can be used to encourage many thinking skills such as:
- Comparing and contrasting
- Inducing and deducing
- Analyzing or classifying
- Problem solving and decision making
- Critical and creative thinking
1. Investigate pre-made Web Quests.- Teacher Web There are many Web Quests that have been created. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the first page of each Web Quest you can see the date of publication. It is important when you use a Web Quest over multiple years that you verify the websites being linked. Often times web hosting can change and sites can become unavailable.
- Web Quests 2013 These Web Quests are more current and a bit more challenging.
2. Adapting and Enhancing3. Planning a Web Quest
4. Using the included template, create a Web Quest that could be utilized with a group of students.
5. Tweet your Web Quest to the class Twitter.
H. Using Formative and Summative Assessments for Math and Science
Why use Gizmo Learning Technology?This video gives statistical data on how using technology improves learning.